Write a python program to count the number of lines in a text file

Introduction

A text file contains a sequence of lines which are formed by a number of letters, numbers, symbols, etc. The total number of lines can be calculated manually but if the file size is huge then it would be a difficult task. To solve this problem we'll take the help of programming.

In this section, we'll write a python program to count the number of lines in a text file. Please check file handling in python if you don't familiar with working with files in python.

Example

This is what our text file looks like.

Code

file = open("file.txt", "r")
# Reading the file content
content = file.read()
content = content.split("\n")

# Declaring the count variable
count = 0
for ix in content:
    # Checking if the line is empty or not
    # if empty then the count variable will not increase
    if ix:
        count += 1

print("The number of lines in the file is: ", count)

# Closing the file
file.close()

Output

The number of lines in that file is:  12

Exercise

☛Count the total number of spaces in the lines in a text file.